My first favorite TV show was the reruns WGNX-ATlanta played about 2:30 each weekday afternoon when I was a little boy. Turns out, this was what professionals call "needle-drop music": composed for a library to be used in film and television as incidental music. All rights belong to the creators and I make no apologies for my utmost joy at re-discovering these songs again! I really don't think you had to grow up watching that crazy ol' cartoon to appreciate these as music. I dug them up under their original names, where applicable. You should leave a note of thanks if you feel so moved, for the people who dug up these rare tunes. Many of them had not been released to the public in decades! I'll start you off right: you get to see this drummer lay into "Powerdrive" ! (Who is Johnny Pearson? You know another of his composition for sure, "Heavy Action"- the NFL Monday Night Football theme! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p41_M_...

Avengers Rock Group: while earlier family acts such as the Fantastic Four charted in the 60’s, like the Rolling Stones of the Silver Age, the Earth’s Mightiest Rock Group would go on, in different incarnations, to be a blockbuster draw on tours. Perhaps, besides Thor and Keith Richards’ similar ages, and Mjolnir’s tong’s resemblance to Mick Jagger, they bear this most in common: they have endured as a live act. 1963 First line-up: Giant Man on Drums, Wasp on tambourine and vocals, Iron Man on bass, and Thor on 12 string guitar and harmonies, with the Hulk as the group’s first failed lead singer. While his attitude revolutionized rebellion in American youth, the group did not chart overseas, instead losing their singer for good, at a concert with Savage Submariner, the Elvis of the shellfish. A new talent would emerge, however, in the ice cool vocals of Blue Eyed Stevie Rogers. About this time, the group invented heavy metal, as the new line up consisted of Giant Man’s big bass, th...